Shutdown grounded plane Vanderbilt uses for organ transplants

7:07 PM,
Oct. 11, 2013

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The airplane that Vanderbilt LifeFlight uses for organ transplants was grounded by the government shutdown because the Federal Aviation Administration had not completed its license renewal by midnight on Oct. 1.

Vanderbilt was without the service for two and a half days as it awaited a replacement aircraft that arrived on the afternoon of Oct. 3. LifeFlight missed two patient transports during that period, but neither of those was related to organ transplantation, said John Howser, a spokesman for Vanderbilt University ...